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(No Model.)

B. M. PRESTON.

NAPKIN BELT. I I

No. 423,572. Patented Mar. 18, 1890'.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

ELLEN M. PRESTON, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TOHERBERT I. GOULD, OF SAME PLACE.

NAPKlN-BELT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 423,572, dated March18, 1890.

' Application filed July 1, 1889. Serial No. 316,259. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELLEN M. PRESTON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of RhodeIsland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSafety-Belts and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to produce a novel safety-belt forsupporting a napkin, and especially to provide an article of this classwhich will be comfortable to wear, which shall be provided withfastening devices at one or both sides, so that the belt may be readilyremoved, and which shall be provided at both front and back with asimple and easily-operated device for the attachment of a napkin, thearticle being so constructed that the fastening devices cannot come incontact with the person of the wearer in use, and the fastening devicesso constructed that theymay be readily connected to or detached from thebelt at either f ont rback without removing them from the nYrpkin. With'these ends in view I have devised the simple and novel construction ofwhich the following description, in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, is a specification, numbers being used to denote the severalparts.

Figure 1 is a perspective of my novel safetybelt, showing a napkinapplied as in use; Fig. 2, "a section 011 the line 00 :0, showing themanner in which the napkin is attached to the belt; Fig. 3, aview of theattaching device separated from the belt; and Fig. Al is a viewillustrating the substitution of a buckle for buttons as fasteningdevices for the belt.

1 denotes the belt, which may be made entirely of textile material orprovided with strips 2 of elastic, inserted as shown in the drawings Thebelt in shape is not a perfect zone, but is made to curve downward andthen upward again, as at 3, at both front and back, the object of thisconstruction being to cause the weight to be entirely supported by thehips, so as to avoid strain either upon the back or the abdomen. At bothfront and back 7 denotes the napkin, and 8 the fastening:

devices by which it is connected to the belt at both front and back.These fastening devices consist simply of plates of metal provided withslots 9, through which the securing-straps .10 are passed, and upper andlower slots, (de:

noted, respectively, by 11 and 12,) through which the napkin is passedin securing it in place in the manner which I will presently explain.The securingstraps are stitched firmly to the tabs, as indicated in Fig.2, andthe fastening devices are held in place by.

simplypassing the straps through slots 9, and then connecting the freeends of the'straps to the tabs in any suitable manner, as by a button 13engaging a suitable button-hole, as shown in the drawings.

--It will of course be apparent that buckles may be substituted forbuttons, if preferred.

Each end of the napkinisseeured to one of the fastening devices bypassing the end through slot 1 I from the front and then downward andthrough slot 12 from the back, the end of the napkin lying underneath,as is clearly shown in Fig. 2.

In use the napkin may be attached either before or after the belt is puton. Suppose the belt to be 011. Each end of the napkin is connected toone of the fastening devices in the manner described. The securing-strapat the back is passed through a slot 9 in one of the fastening devicesand then secured in place, the other end of the napkin being then drawnto the front and connected to the belt in the same manner.

It should be noted as an important feature of my invention that thefastening devices may be readily disconnected from the belt wvithoutremoving them from the napkin,

which is a verygreat convenience in use.

Having thus described my invention, a I

claim- A safety-belt curved downward at front and back to piece thesti'ain upon the hips and belt Without detaching the fastener from theprovided at front and back with securingnapkin. IO straps 10, whose freeends are adapted to but- In testimony whereof I affix my signature inton upon the belt, in combination with fastpresence oftwo witnesses. v

5 ening devices for a napkin having slots 9, ELLEN M. PRESTON.

through which said straps are passed and the \Vitnesses: ends connectedto ,the belt, so that either MYRON R. 'BRIGGS,

end of the napkin may be detached from the H. I. GOULD.

